The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011

Srategic partnership by SABIC, Asahi Kasei Chemicals and Mitsubishi for acrylonitrile and sodium cyanide joint venture in the Middle East

Attempts to uncover active components of folk medicine have led to discovery of three new anti-inflammatory compounds in a toxic shrub

The risk associated with pharmaceuticals and pesticides is similar, but both are vital tools to maintain human health

Synthesis of the core ring structure of marine natural product with anti-malarial properties achieved in five steps

It is possible to create nanoscopic particles of platinum with precise shapes using facet-specific peptide sequences, according to US chemists

Good agreement in calculations and experiment reveal how an important pre-catalyst used in olefin metathesis is activated

The successful generation of bare [CuO]⁺ has revealed the final piece of the puzzle about the activation of methane

Understanding how the passivating layer on a gold surface forms could see more accurate biosensors developed

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